Anyone think we shall be hitting a depression, from all I've read about the wallstreet crash (not much) it wont be good (duh LOL).And most of this can be blamed upon northern rock, yet that can be blamed upon the government for continuing to fund them when they where going strait down hill.

But as for what it would do to the country it wont be good, a lot of the communitys are already very unstable and the amount of suicises caused after wallstreet crash I would think will be much stronger in the UK.

So who thinks the UK will pull out of this trouble?Gordon Brown doesn't have it in him I don't think hes already screwed up enough.

well it's not goign to be a real depression, under gordon brown britian has managed to have a record 12 years of sustained growth. you've got to go down by a percent or two sometime. this depression isn't goign to be us all out of work not by a long shot.

another thing, will people in this country understand that when you're a shareholder you own part of a company, it's not a fucking lottery. compnay make no money you get no money. I couldn't beleive my ears when shareholder sin northern rock wanted to eb compensate dby the government. why? the company went bust they spent all your money why should we compensate you? you weren't goign to give the rest of the country any of you're sharholder profits were you???

If you have your money in a bank and they go bust you have the right to be compensated of a maximum of £30kGBP.

The only reason they went down hill so fast is because all the people taking their money out, if they left their money in the bank it would of continued to run well, it can easily be blamed upon the media.

But the credit crunch was caused by america not the UK, they where going down hill way before the UK was, and due to their businesses being operated in the UK as well it hit the UK hard, causing banks to become scared to lend money to each other.

It caused the oil prices to skyrocket which basically screwed everyone.

how can the oil companies charge so much for pertol AND post record profits? Surely, they should cut back on their profits to make the prices more reasonable. I think we should have thme all shot for profiteering. hell, we're shooting innocent iraqi's and Afghanistans every day, it's time we shot some people who deserved it.

I can't afford to get on the property market with house prices so high. they've screwed he lot of us. why? they pushed house prices soo high for greed. now everyone took out large loans on their home, and the credit crunch has taken effect.